The foreign cemeteries (gaijin bochi) in Japan are chiefly located in Tokyo and at the former treaty ports of Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, and Hakodate. Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ... Megane-bashi, the Eyeglasses Bridge Nagasaki  listen (長崎市; -shi) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ... Port Tower at night Kōbe (Japanese: 神戸市; -shi) is a city in Japan, located on the island of Honshu. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... View of Hakodate from Mountain Hakodate (函館市; -shi) is a city and port located in Oshima, Hokkaido, Japan. ...

Tokyo

The Tokyo foreign cemetery is a section of the Aoyama Reien municipal cemetery in Aoyama, Tokyo. It is currently (2005) under threat from the city's bureaucracy which is planning to make a park on the site and has posted Kanpo notices in front of endangered graves for which fees have not been paid by families of the deceased. These notices expire at the end of September 2005 - after which the graves may be removed and reburied elsewhere. Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ... Aoyama is a neighbourhood of Tokyo, located in the northeastern Minato Ward. ...

According to the cemetery’s rules, if a plot’s 590 yen per square metre annual fee is unpaid for five years, a notice goes up and the plot will be razed one year later. 78 plots in Aoyama Reien were flagged on October 1, 2004 and many of them are in the foreign section. They are therefore at risk of removal after September 30, 2005.

These are the graves of expatriates from the Meiji era, men and women who promoted Western ideas and practices in Japan—doctors, educators, missionaries, and artists. Many of them were o-yatoi gaikokujin. History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Meiji period (Japanese: Meiji Jidai 明治時代 ) (1868–1912... The o-yatoi gaikokujin or oyatoi gaikokujin (お雇い外国人 — hired foreigners, foreign employees) were foreign specialists, engineers, teachers, mercenaries and more, hired to assist in the modernization of Japan. ...

Famous non-Japanese buried at Aoyama Reien include the British minister plenipotentiary Hugh Fraser who died in the post in 1894, Captain Francis Brinkley, Guido Verbeck, Henry Spencer Palmer, Edoardo Chiossone, Joseph Heco, Edwin Dun, Mary True and several others. The following is a chronological list of British heads of mission (ministers and ambassadors) in Japan, 1859–2004. ... Hugh Fraser ( February 22, 1837– June 4, 1894) headed the British Legation in Tokyo as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary in the final stages of the negotiations which led to the signing on July 16, 1894 of the revised treaty (called the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation) between... Captain Francis Brinkley (1841-1912) died aged 73 in Tokyo in October 1912. ... Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (or Verbeek) was born on January 28, 1830 in the Dutch city of Zeist. ... Edoardo Chiossone (1833-April 11, 1898) was born in Arenzano, near Genoa, in 1833. ...

The Foreign Section Trust [1] (http://www.ii-idea.com/) has recently been formed to campaign to preserve the foreign part of the cemetery.

Nagasaki

The Sakamoto international cemetery in Nagasaki includes the grave of the Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover. Megane-bashi, the Eyeglasses Bridge Nagasaki  listen (長崎市; -shi) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ... Thomas Blake Glover (June 6, 1838 - December 13, 1911), known as the Scottish Samurai, was a trader from the North East of Scotland, instrumental in the founding of what was later to become the Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan. ...

Tales of the Nagasaki International cemeteries [2] (http://www.nfs.nias.ac.jp/page002.html).

Kobe

The Kobe cemetery is on Mount Futatabi in a pleasant woodland location and has the graves of many long-term residents. Port Tower at night Kōbe (Japanese: 神戸市; -shi) is a city in Japan, located on the island of Honshu. ...

Yokohama

The Yokohama cemetery includes among many others the grave of Charles Lennox Richardson, murdered in the Namamugi Incident in September 1862. For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... Charles Lennox Richardson was the English merchant from Shanghai who was in Japan and was murdered by the Satsuma retainers of Shimazu Hisamitsu on September 14, 1862. ... The Namamugi Incident (生麦事件, Namamugi Jiken) (also known sometimes as the Kanagawa Incident, and archaically as the Richardson Affair) was a samurai attack on foreign nationals in Japan on September 14, 1862, which resulted in the bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863. ...

On the weekends of the Spring, Summer and Fall (from noon to 4:00 p.m.), the cemetery is opened up to the public in lieu of a small donation to help with the upkeep of the premises. Visitors will get a small pamphlet showing graves of interest, and they can also view the museum at the site.

Hakodate

The Hakodate cemetery includes the grave of a mariner from the fleet of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. View of Hakodate from Mountain Hakodate (函館市; -shi) is a city and port located in Oshima, Hokkaido, Japan. ... Photograph of Perry Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force. ...

See also

• o-yatoi gaikokujin
• Heads of the United Kingdom Mission in Japan
• Anglo-Japanese relations
• Franco-Japanese relations

The o-yatoi gaikokujin or oyatoi gaikokujin (お雇い外国人 — hired foreigners, foreign employees) were foreign specialists, engineers, teachers, mercenaries and more, hired to assist in the modernization of Japan. ... The following is a chronological list of British heads of mission (ministers and ambassadors) in Japan, 1859–2004. ... Contents // Categories: Japanese history | Japan-related stubs ...

External Links

• The Foreign Section Trust (http://www.foreignsection.org) - formed in 2005 to preserve the foreign section of Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo.
• Tales of the Nagasaki International Cemeteries (http://www.nfs.nias.ac.jp/page002.html)